Serenadu foundation

About the workproject

We need 11 volunteers

I'm Gabriel Lennox a young man residing in Mfangano Island in the middle of lake Victoria in kenya. I'm an organic and permaculture agricultural lover. I rare animals and grow various annual crops for food. My family banks all its hopes on agriculture. Being an Island, we are surrounded with water and hence most of the times we use lake water for irrigation. We welcome all interested volunteers from all over the world to join in our small farm.

HELP NEEDED.
1. Involvement in gardening activities
2. Taking care of animals (cattle and goats)
3. Poultry farming .activities
4. Charity work both in the family and in the community
5. House chores

ACCOMMODATION
Guests will get full boarding facilities and stay with host families from the local community, based in a tranquil, rural environment. Each guest will have their own bed, but may share a room if belongs to the same gender or if are couples, Different gender stay in different rooms. Each of the clean and well spread beds, should have a mosquito net.

MEALS
Volunteers will share meals with host families where they will be served with three meals a day that is breakfast, lunch and supper. Breakfast will be served before the day’s work starts at 8 am or not later than 9am with tea, local snacks and fruits. Lunch and supper will be served on time too with a variety of local dishes. Guests will be provided with 3 meals of interest or on request a day by the host family, or receive a pre packed carry lunch if the project is far from the host family residence or be bought if the Hotels are around. Food will be prepared by the Hosting family as per the normal daily diet timetable and on the request of the visitor in case he/she is interested in a different meal,

Any guest who comes with his/her budget, all his/her meals will be prepared on his/her order/directives and we will require a meals time table to be prepared in a collaboration of both the guests and the cooks. We prefer preparing meals with the consent of all the people living in the house/family and considering different interests of different house dwellers including guests.

We serve; Chapati, Mandazi, Tea, farm foods like potatoes, beans, green grams, cassava, maize, bananas, Local vegetables. We also serve beef, Milk, Chicken, several species of fish found in Lake Victoria, Irish potatoes, spaghetti, indomie, chips, sossi, Rice, budgie, Ugali and porridge, and any other food staff palatable to Guests at their orders/requests.

LAUNDRIES
During your stay, your linens will be washed twice a week on agreement, and your room will be swept and arranged regularly. We have a separate bathroom only for our guests' use, but those who like can do swimming in lake Victoria direct as we are only 200 metres from the lake shore.

THE SURROUNDING
With our guests, we enjoy charting, exchanging cultures and sometimes partying or eating out.